, consisting mostly of small numbers of high @ - @ level and technical support troops such as signal ##lers , engineers , med ##ics , observers , and police . one significant commitment has been australia ' s ongoing involvement with the long running multinational force and observers in the sinai . the operational tempo started increasing in the mid @ - @ 1990s , when australia became involved in a series of high @ - @ profile operations , deploy ##ing significantly larger combat units in support of a number of missions including cambodia , rwanda , somalia , east timor , and the solomon islands . australia has been involved in close to 100 separate missions , involving more than 30 @ , @ 000
, consisting mostly of small numbers of high @ - @ level and technical support troops such as signallers, engineers, medics, observers, and police. one significant commitment has been australia's ongoing involvement with the long running multinational force and observers in the sinai. the operational tempo started increasing in the mid @ - @ 1990s, when australia became involved in a series of high @ - @ profile operations, deploying significantly larger combat units in support of a number of missions including cambodia, rwanda, somalia, east timor, and the solomon islands. australia has been involved in close to 100 separate missions, involving more than 30 @, @ 000